Welcome back - and I feel for yu re luggage. had mine go awol after the transatlantic flight from hell once (24 hours stuck at JFK during a strike). Certainly learnt to never take anything I valued with me that I could squash into carry-on...

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. --
Dietrich Bonhoeffer